Micro
A&P
Botany
Organismal
Profs
100
The jelly-like substance that is often used in Petri dishes.
Agar
100
The number of chambers in the human heart.
4 chambers
100
These are the food producers of the cell. The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae.
Chloroplasts
100
What type of food is a tomato considered by biologists?
A type of fruit, more specifically a berry.
100
This person can juggle.
Ecology professor Dr. Fazekas
200
The first true antibiotic.
Penicillin
200
The type of joint found at both the shoulder and hip.
Ball-and-socket joint
200
A thick sticky substance that oozes from Pine, Fir and Cedar trees as a response to injury or insect attack; often confused with sap.
Resin
200
The type of animal that went viral in a Thai zoo. (Her name is Moo Deng!)
Pygmy hippopotamus
200
This person can ride a unicycle.
Mycologist and microbiology professor Dr. McEvoy
300
Gram positive bacteria have a thick layer of this substance in their cell walls.
Peptidoglycan
300
This cranial nerve controls most of the parasympathetic output to thoracic and abdominal organs.
The vagus nerve.
300
In all dicot angiosperms there are two of these.
Cotyledons
300
The main type of cell in the human body that does not contain a nucleus.
Mature red blood cells
300
This person lives on Lake Huron in Tawas.
Biology professor Dr. Little, who also runs the aquaponics in the greenhouse
400
The cycle of viral replication that immediately leads to host cell lysis.
The lytic cycle
400
The blood pH effect of slow breathing.
Acidosis
400
This female part of a flower is made up of the stigma, style, ovule and ovary.
Pistil
400
This organism produces the vast majority of Earth's oxygen.
Phytoplankton (up to 50%!)
400
This person learned to milk a cow before they could read.
Cell biology professor and Biology Club advisor Dr. Fromherz
500
The drug that was used to treat anthrax poisoning in the 2001 anthrax bioterrorism attacks.
Ciprofloxacin
500
This renal mechanism, involving countercurrent multiplication in the loop of Henle and countercurrent exchange in the vasa recta, establishes the medullary osmotic gradient essential for water reabsorption.
The countercurrent mechanism
500
A thin layer of live tree cells found between the sapwood and the phloem (inner bark) of the trunk.
Cambium
500
The largest living organism in the world.
By mass: Pando, a clonal quaking aspen forest (estimated to be 6,000 tons!)
By area: "Humongous fungus", a colony of honey fungus in Malheur National Forest (8.9 sq. km)
Note: this is highly contested; it's hard to estimate these giants!
500
This person studied Islamic and Arabic studies in graduate school.
Biology Department Secretary Carrie